Scott Simon Quotes

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

… a reasonable price to pay

Without any payment? Your Majesty, that would cost too much.

If you want to stand with me as a single mom - and I know so many of my friends and colleagues do - please don't appropriate my burden as a way to validate your own. To suggest that you are single-parenting when you are simply solo for the weekend devalues what real single mothers do.

As a single parent, it can really be tough if the father's not in the picture much. Physically, emotionally and financially, you are trying to be there for your child and it can really get on top of you.

Bringing up children on my own was quite a busy time.

Two weeks in Hawaii with four kids is one of the dumber ideas I've ever had.

We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms of our mental states.

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.

Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.

If I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.

Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.

All my friends are always telling me how hard it is to have kids. 'Oh, David, it's so hard.' That's not hard. I'll tell you what hard is. Try talking your girlfriend into her third consecutive abortion. Yeah, that's hard, that takes finesse. You're just inconvenienced.

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care.

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to dress. You cringe.

The minute you become a parent, you're always going to wonder if you're doing something wrong, and I certainly experience that on a daily basis. It's a big challenge, and you can't help wondering if you're doing anything wrong. You have to trust your instincts and do what feels right for you.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing. Kids get heavy. Quite literally. They're heavy to lift up when they're throwing tantrums.

Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.

Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter's old enough to take care of that herself.